Met Office reveals names of storms to hit Britain this winter — is your name on the list?

THE Met Office has named the string of storms which are set to hit Britain this winter.

All names have a chance of being selected, as long as the weather service considers them “proper”. Is yours on the list?

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Storm clouds gather over ships on the horizon at Whitley Beach, Tyne and Wear

The 2017-2018 season kicked off with Storm Aileen, the first of 10 severe weather events to be named in the past year, and ended with Hector earlier this summer.

This season, Ali will be the first storm to blow in across Britain.

The male named storm will be followed by Bronagh, Callum and Deidre.

Weather officials claim try to go for the names which are popular but also reflect the culture and diversity of UK and Ireland.

Weather forecast for Wednesday September 12th will be a wet start in the south with the rest of the UK having sunny spells

NOAA NWS National Hurricane Center

Storm Florence passing over the US, and on its way to the UK earlier this month

Derrick Ryall, head of public weather services at the Met Office, said: “Naming storms has been proved to raise awareness of severe weather in the UK, providing a consistent message to the public and crucially prompting people to take action to prevent harm to themselves or to their property.”

The alphabetical list of names skips Q, U, X, Y and Z to comply with international storm-naming conventions.

Documents seen by Wired revealed the Met Office does reject some names.

One report read: “Other names were discounted because they were not proper names.”

A Met Office forecaster said: “Thursday and Friday temperatures will be on the rice, with it reaching 22 and possibly 23C in the South by Saturday and Sunday.

“But generally conditions are quite average for this time of year.”

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